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Jeff Hayzlett's Business Library
Posted April 27, 2010 8:35 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

If you know who Jeff Hayzlett is, it is probably from his appearances on television or his Twitter footprint. But the chief marketing officer of Kodak is now venturing into the wonderful world of analog with his new book, The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing?, being released by Business Plus in May. And he has done something in that book that I wish more authors would do. He has included an appendix in which he lists his "Business Library 'Must' List." It gives you an idea of what has influenced him most over the years (and, just maybe, an idea of what to expect from his book). It includes:

• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson

• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough & John Helyar

• How to Win Friend and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R Covey

• The Practice of Management by Peter F. Drucker

• The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It by Michael Gerber

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M Goldratt & Jeff Cox

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca with William Novak

• What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis

• Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone. by Mitch Joel

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T Kiyosaki with Sharon L Lechter

• Guerrilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business by Jay Conrad Levinson

• Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition by Harvey MacKay

• The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Tom Peters & Robert H Waterman

• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

• Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J Trump with Tony Schwartz

• The Art of War by SinTzu

• Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey

• Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar

Not only does his book get extra points from me for including a list of his favorites, Hayzlett himself gets extra credit for using a Garrison Keillor quote to introduce the list: "A book is a gift you can open again and again."

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Two Lists
Posted Oct. 28, 2008 4:00 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

The Arizona Republic printed a list of recommended finance and business titles from Jeffrey L. Coles'--finance department chair at Arizona State University. They are:

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein, John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies by Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart & David Wessels, John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Irrational Exuberance by Robert Schiller, Currency, 2006

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael Porter, Free Press, 1998

Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 2007

Coles sneaks in a sixth suggestion "for humor and cheer in our turbulent times," Scott Adams' Still Pumped From Using the Mouse.

CIO Insight has picked ten leadership books they feel "capture what it takes to lead." They are:

Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value by Bill George, Jossey-Bass, 2004

Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls by Noel Tichy & Warren Bennis, Portfolio, 2007

Leading Change by John Kotter, Harvard Business School Press, 1996

The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All by Michael Useem, Three River Press, 1999

What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom about Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Harvard Business School Press, 2007

Leadership Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break a Leader by David L. Dotlich, James L. Noel & Norman Walker, Jossey-Bass, 2004

Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution by Michael Hammer & James Champy, HarperBusiness, 2004

The Practice of Management by Peter Drucker, HarperCollins, 2006

Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators by Patrick Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 2005

A Leader's Legacy by James Kouzes & Barry Posner, Jossey-Bass, 2006

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Drucker Recommends Drucker Books
Posted June 4, 2008 8:23 a.m. by jack
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

In Jeffrey Krames October 2008 Portfolio book called Inside Drucker's Brain--based on an all day one-on-one visit with the Drucker shortly before he died--he asked Drucker about his books, among other things.

Drucker told me what he felt were his most important books. The first one was no surprise, but one or two if the others were.

• Concept of the Corporation (1946)
• The Practice of Management (1954)
• Managing for Results (1964)
• The Effective Executive (1966)
• The Age of Discontinuity (1969)
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985)

When you want to know, go the the master.

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Best Business Books via U.S. News and World Report
Posted May 18, 2007 9:06 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

U.S. News and World Report has a huge special report on the Best Business Books. Their opening says:

Hundreds of business books are published each year. Chances are at least one has the answers you're looking for. But how to find it? U.S. News spoke with 14 leaders from all walks of business life—from academics to entrepreneurs to corporate execs—about the five books they consider indispensable reading for managers.

When magazines do these lists we always create a summary so people can see the picks in one quick view. The commentary that each leader gives is always interesting, so make sure you click through on the author's name if you see something that interests you.

Good To Great made four appearances on the list and Collins is one of leaders providing reading recommendations. Porter's Competitive Strategy appears twice. Otherwise, the picks are unique. I personally like Jeff Pfeffer's picks and reasons the best.

Best Business Books

Chris Anderson (editor-in-chief of Wired, author of The Long Tail)

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2001)
• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger (2000)

• Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly (1995)

• Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology by George Gilder (1989)

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)

Jack Brennan (CEO of Vanguard)

• Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove (1996)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (2001)

• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael Porter (1980)

• Economics by Paul Samuelson (1948)

• Leadership Is an Art by Max DePree (1989)

Robert Bruner (Dean of Darden School of Business, University of Virginia)

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)

• On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (2005)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (2001)

• Leading Change by John Kotter (1996)

• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker (1967)

Jim Buckmaster (CEO of craigslist)

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)

• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil (2005)

• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman (1988)

• The Discourses by Epictetus (second century B.C.)

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric Raymond (1999)

Jim Collins (author of Good to Great)

• In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years by Jim and Sybil Stockdale (1984, out of print, ISBN 0870213083)

• The Second World War (six volumes) by Winston Churchill (1948–1953)

• Personal History by Katharine Graham (1997)

• Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers (1962)

• The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen J. Gould (1980)

Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks)

• The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie (1889)

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)

• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen (1997)

• The Only Investment Guide You Will Ever Need by Andrew Tobias (1978)

• Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!) by Stephan Schiffman (1987)

Thomas Donaldson (professor at Wharton School of Business)

• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (fifth century B.C.)

• Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)

• Modern Corporation and Private Property by Adolf Berle and Gardinar Means (1932)

• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter (1942)

• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)

Carly Fiorina (former CEO of Hewlett-Packard)

• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan (2002)

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman (2005)

• Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise by Alfred Chandler (1962)

• Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age by Tom Peters (2003)

Jackie Fouse (CFO of Alcon)

• Blindness by José Saramago (1995)

• The Quest for Value by G. Bennett Stewart III (1991)

• Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald (2005)

• The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas Friedman (1999)

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (1994)

Robert Joss (dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business)

• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981)

• The Practice of Management by Peter Drucker (1954)

• My Years With General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (1963)

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jerry Porras and Jim Collins (1994)

• Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society by John Gardner (1964)

Jeffery Pfeffer (professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business)

• Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad (1994)

• The Human Side of Enterprise by Douglas McGregor (1960)

• Influence: How and Why People Agree to Things by Robert Cialdini (1984)

• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (1946)

• Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner (1997)

John W. Rogers Jr. (chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management)

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1974)

• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 by Taylor Branch (1988)

• Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein (1995)

• Succeeding Against the Odds by John H. Johnson with Lerone Bennett Jr. (1989, out of print, ISBN 1567430023)

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (1982)

Hector Ruiz (chairman and CEO of AMD)

• A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (1899)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (2001)

• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C. K. Prahalad (2005)

• Dilbert by Scott Adams (ongoing)

Deborah Wright (CEO of Carver Bancorp)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (2001)

• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael Porter (1980)

• I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson (2002)

• Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman (1953)

Note: I left a couple books off because the leaders were self-promoting themselves or others associated with them.

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